CR Week In Review

The top comics-related news stories from April 25 to May 1, 2015:

1. A magazine notes some calls for cartoonists in North American and Australia to be assassinated for depictions of Muhammed, in projected lone-wolf scenarios.

2. Charlie Hebdo comes back into the news on several fronts. Multiple authors express their distaste for honoring Charlie Hebdo with an award for free speech at the PEN Awards, and multiple author express their distaste with the decisions made and opinions expressed by that original group of authors.

3. Copies of Maus were pulled from bookstore shelves in anticipation of legislation against Nazi-related imagery.

Winner Of The Week
Alison Bechdel

Losers Of The Week
Many DC Comics creators, under the way the program for compensating for character use is executed, as per this article.

Quote Of The Week
"Although Kickstarter's terms of use stipulate that any creators unable to satisfy the terms of their agreement with their backers might be subject to legal action, no sane attorney would initiate a class-action suit on a contingency-fee basis against insolvent creators, and no sane backer would ante up the necessary legal fees." -- Gideon Lewis-Kraus

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the comic image selected is from the brief but notable 1970s run of Seaboard/Atlas

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